6/22/2023 0 Comments Zora neale hurston's barracoon![]() ![]() Haiti: Despite punishing history, the island nation remains revolutionary, remarkableġ969: Sir George Wiliams protest was Canada's civil rights reckoningĪs the nation this year marks the 400th anniversary of the arrival of 20 Africans in Virginia in 1619, Lewis’ story is of particular importance. ![]() More: Soul food returns to black history roots as USA's first fusion cuisine ![]() The Africans were taken to Plateau, just north of Mobile, and Kossola became Cudjo Lewis. The ship was burned upon arrival in Alabama to hide evidence of its illegal cargo. They were put on the Clotilda to endure a harrowing six-week passage across the Atlantic Ocean. Kossola was among more than 110 Africans captured and detained for weeks in a barracoon, or holding pen, in what is now Benin. had outlawed “international trafficking of African peoples.” But a wealthy Alabama ship operator and slaveholder named Timothy Meaher wanted to prove that he could still smuggle kidnapped Africans into the country and organized an expedition to do just that. It was 1860 - a half-century after the U.S. slave ship descendants gather at ‘Africatown’Īt age 19, Oluale Kossola was preparing for marriage in his native West African village when he was captured by warriors from a rival tribe and sold into slavery. ![]()
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